Cynthia Harrison

Have been reading Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life with fascination, horror, and admiration.

A while ago, I summed up a story  from the New Yorker about how Raymond Carver’s widow, the poet Tess Gallagher, is looking to publish Carver’s unedited stories, which had been cut to pieces by his minimalist editor, Gorden Lish. Vindication at last for the real Ray. Right? Well, another view of this story pops up in Tobias Wolff’s…